I'm new to linux. So all i did, installed emerald as it is instructed here! (i wonder why there are only very few places where a proper instruction is given). Everything worked good. But When i installed gaia emerald sprout in emerald theme manager, something went wrong and the title bar of all windows were gone and in terminal showed some error segmentation or what. And note that I couldn't close terminal after entering "emerald --replace" if i did, the effects were going away... :/As it was impossible to work with titlebar less windows, I had to open new terminal and type "emerald --replace" again, and the title bar came back but that was only until I kept the terminal window opened Using Ubuntu 12.04. Didn't install compiz config settings manager.

You have to add emerald in the startup applications. Go to system>preferences>startup applications. in startup applications click "add" then a "add startup program" dialogue will appear, type in the name field emerald, and for the command field type in "emerald --replace" w/out the quotes, and for the comment field you can leave it blank. I hope this works for you Cheerz

Been abroad guys.I always did minimals. Doing an upgrade from 10.04>12.04 was a major disaster. 10.04 was the last Ubuntu for me. Switched to debian businesscard. Works a charm there. No gnome whatsoever is installed.The compiz standaloneboots at 100 Mb.I like to do my own stuff. Don't like prechewed os'es. If you're into unity or gnome shell, please, go for it. For me, ubuntu has become a major disaster.Hell, it's easier to make a compiz standalone in slitaz or puppy for all I know. Ubuntu on it's hand doesn't seem to care much for their minimals in favor of their full blown.....thing.

And If you upgrade your system from 10.04 to 12.04 ubuntu maybe don't works normal. I upgraded 11.10 to 12.04 beta and emerald works. Fresh install 12.04 and emerald works too. I have old ATI (xpress1200) with open-source driversSorry for bad english

that worked! Mayn thanks iamfuss!For all others: If you have upgraded to 12.04 TLS and you have flickering when using the cube and changing desktops here is a workaround. The results is a smooth compiz with emerald working.

un-install compiz and anything related to it.

do "watch "dpkg -l | grep -i compiz"" and get rid of everything you see there.

@iamfuss: thank you for the howto. I managed to build and install. But I get kernel: [ 7623.718266] emerald[16585]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f310f9a1fff sp 00007fffc59b0238 error 6 in libdecoration.so.0.0.0[7f310f99f000+8000]I've tried re-installing libdcoration0-dev and re-building emerald, but get the same error.Any ideas? (I just upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04)Many thanks

@ iamfuss: thank you for the howto. I was able to build and install. But when I do "emerald --replace &" I get localhost kernel: [ 7623.718266] emerald[16585]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f310f9a1fff sp 00007fffc59b0238 error 6 in libdecoration.so.0.0.0[7f310f99f000+8000]I've tried re-installing libdcoration0-dev and re-building emerald but still get the same error.Any dieas?

Close the Terminal,-------------------------------------------------------Go to dash and type emerald, open it, drop down menu,select theme,hit save,close it.-------------------------------------------------------Open Terminal again "if open close it" type this,

emerald --replace "Hit enter"

--------------------------------------------------------Thank you ~iamfuss for this had to do some googling to make it work 0-o cuz im a noob lol.